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A STATEMENT 



THE TRUSTEES 



OF THE 



EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, 



CAMBEIDGE, MASS. 



TO WHICH IS APPENDED 



THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THEM AND 
MR. NATHAN MATTHEWS, OF BOSTON. 






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CAMBRIDGE : 

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 
1873. 



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STATEMENT. 



ri^HERE is, in many minds, a strong feeling that the time 
-*- has come when the Trustees of The Episcopal Theo- 
logical School at Cambridge, Mass., owe it to the Church 
and to themselves to give a short statement of facts touching 
the foundation of the Institution, and a brief view of its past 
and present condition. 

I. The Founding of the School. 

So long ago as the year 1836, a pious lady of Salem, Miss 
Betsey Yarney, left by will a legacy of 1500 to a theological 
school for the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, 
to be paid whenever such an Institution should be established. 
Not, however, until the year 1867, was any thing further 
towards the object done. In that year, Mr. Benjamin T. 
Reed, of Boston, gave effect to the cherished purpose of his 
heart by the gift of $100,000 towards the founding and 
endowing of the desired school of sacred learning. His gift 
was conveyed in the following Indenture, or Instrument of 
Donation : — 

^tl Xtttfttlttttt of two parts, made this twenty-second day of 
January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, 
by and between Benjajmin Tyler Reed, of Boston, in the County 
of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, Esquire, of the first part, and 
Edward Sprague Rand, Robert Charles Winthrop, and 
John Phelps Putnam, all of said Boston, Esquires, of the second 
part. 



Whereas the said Benjamin Tyler Reed is desirous of founding at 
Cambridge, within the State and Diocese of Massachusettsj a Theo- 
logical School for the purpose of educating young men of competent 
talents, pure morals and piety for the Christian Ministry, in accord- 
ance with the doctrines, principles, and polity of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the" United States of America ; and to that end 
has appropriated the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, a portion 
of which, in bonds and other securities, he has already deposited in the 
hands of the said party of the second part, and has promised shortly 
to add thereto such further sum as will make up the full amount 
aforementioned, to be held by them, the said party of the second part, 
in trust, and to be used and applied (together with such other moneys, 
property, and estate as may by other piously disposed persons be con- 
tributed for the same purpose) for the establishment of the said school, 
and the carrying into effect the design aforesaid ; 

Now, therefore, this Indenture witnesseth, that the said Benjamin 
Tyler Reed doth hereby assign and transfer unto the said Edward 
Sprague Rand, Robert Charles Winthrop, and John Phelps Putnam 
the aforesaid moneys, bonds, and securities, to hold to them, their 
successors and assigns, and to the survivors and survivor of them, and 
the heirs and assigns of such survivor, but iisr trust, nevertheless, 
for the uses and purposes, and subject to the limitations following, 
namely : — 

To manage and invest the said fund, and to keep the same always 
safely and profitably invested, with full power to change investments, 
whether the same be of real or personal property, from time to time 
as they shall see fit, and to receive the interest, dividends, rents, and 
profits, and the same, or the net income therefrom, to apply to the 
maintenance and support of the said Theological School according to 
their best judgment and discretion, but in conformity with and subject 
to the provisions of this Indenture, and the Statutes, Articles, and 
Regulations following, which shall be for ever observed and obeyed as 
the Fundamental Statutes, Articles, and Regulations of the said 
School. 

Article First. — The said Institution shall be called " The 
Protestant Episcopal Theological School of Massachu- 
setts," and shall be located and established at Cambridge. 

Article Second. — The instructions and teachings of the said 
School, and of its Professors and Lecturers, shall always be in con- 
formity with the doctrine, ritual and order, discipline and worship, of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, as 



set forth in the book of Common Prayer and the Canons of the said 
Church ; and shall at all times embody and distinctly set forth the 
great doctrine of Justification by Faith alone in the Atonement and 
Righteousness of Christ, as taught in the "Articles of Religion" 
commonly . called the * Thirty -nine Articles, according to the natural 
construction of the said articles (Scripture alone being the standard) 
as adopted at the Reformation, and not according to any tradition, 
doctrine, or usage prior to the said Reformation, not contained in 
Scripture. 

Each and every Professor and Lecturer appointed in the said 
School shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, subscribe to 
a solemn declaration that his teachings and practice shall in all respects 
conform to this Fundamental Article. 

Article Third. — The property and funds of the said Institution 
shall be and remain vested in the said Edward S. Rand, Robert C. 
Winthrop, and John P. Putnam, their associates, successors, and 
assigns, as a Board of Trustees. But, in case the said Trustees shall 
at any time deem it desirable that the number of Trustees should be 
increased to five, they shall signify their wish to the said Benjamin T. 
Reed, if he shall then be living, in writing ; and the said Reed shall then 
nominate in writing two persons, members of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and residents within the Diocese of Massachusetts, or, in case 
of a division of the present Diocese, within the Diocese in which the 
said Institution shall be situated ; and the acting Trustees shall there- 
upon elect the persons so nominated to be Co-Trustees with them- 
selves, and shall make all such conveyances and transfers, and shall 
execute all such instruments, as shall be necessary or proper to vest in 
such new Trustees the trust property, funds, and estate jointly with 
themselves. But in case the said Benjamin T. Reed shall decline or 
fail to make such nomination, or shall have deceased, then the said 
acting Trustees shall elect two persons, members of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and residents as aforesaid, to be Co-Trustees with 
themselves. The persons so elected shall have the same rights, powers, 
and authority as if herein originally named and appointed ; and the said 
Board of Trustees shall thereafter consist of five members. In case of 
the death, resignation, or permanent incapacity of any Trustee, a new 
Trustee shall be elected in his stead as speedily as may be, by the 
surviving or remaining Trustees ; but, until such election, all the acts 
and doings of the surviving or remaining Trustees shall be valid and 
effectual. If any member shall cease to be permanently a resident of 
the Diocese in which the said School shall be situated, he shall be 



held to have vacated his office, and a new Trustee shall be elected in 
his stead. Any Trustee may be removed from office by the unanimous 
vote of all the other Trustees. The said Trustees may appoint one 
of their number to be Treasurer, and may also appoint one of their 
number to be Secretary, to record their acts and doings. No vote, 
except to adjourn, shall be valid, unless passed by and with the con- 
currence of a majority of all the members of the Board. No pecuniary 
compensation shall ever be paid from the funds of the Institution to a 
Trustee for any services as such Trustee ; but the Board of Trustees 
may authorize the payment, if they shall deem it expedient, of a 
reasonable compensation to the Treasurer and Secretary. 

Article Fourth. — The Trustees may, from time to time, make 
such By-laws, Rules, and Regulations, for the government, conduct, 
and management of the said School, and of all matters and things 
relating thereto, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture 
and the Fundamental Statutes and Articles herein set forth, as they 
shall deem proper, and conducive to the welfare and prosperity thereof; 
and may alter, amend, or repeal the same. They may, in concurrence 
with the Board of Visitors hereinafter mentioned, and during the life 
of the founder, with his consent, alter, amend, or repeal any of these 
Fundamental Statutes, Articles, and Regulations, except the Second 
Article, provided that three-fourths of the whole number of each of the 
said Boards shall agree and concur in so doing. 

Article Fifth. — The said Trustees shall appoint such Profes- 
sors, Lecturers, and Officers for the instruction and government of the 
School, as they may deem proper ; prescribe their duties, fix their 
salaries, and define their powers. They may remove such Lecturers 
and Officers at their pleasure. To secure a reasonable degree of 
independence, the Professors shall hold their offices during good be- 
havior, subject to removal by the Trustees on trial, for neglect of 
duty, incapacity satisfactorily to perform their duties, immorality, 
holding and avowing doctrines, or adopting rites, ceremonies, or prac- 
tices inconsistent and irreconcilable with the doctrines, ritual and 
order, discipline and worship, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
the United States of America, as set forth in the Book of Common 
Prayer and the Canons of the said Church, or for violation of the 
provisions of the Second Fundamental Article hereof. The Trustees 
may appoint one of the Professors to be Dean of the Faculty, with 
such powers as they may think proper and expedient. They shall 
regulate the admission of Students, and the term and course of study. 
No Professor or Lecturer in the School shall be a Trustee or a member 
of the Board of Visitors. 



Article Sixth. — Any person or persons shall have the right, 
subject to the approbation of the Trustees, to found and establish Pro- 
fessorships or Scholarships in the said School, under such regulations 
as they may respectively prescribe, not inconsistent with the Funda- 
mental Statutes, Articles, and Regulations, and the By-laws, by endow- 
ing such Professorships or Scholarships with funds adequate to the 
support thereof; and may reserve to themselves respectively, during 
their lives, the right of appointing incumbents to their respective Pro- 
fessorships, and to themselves, and their respective heirs and repre- 
sentatives, or to such person, persons, corporations, or parties as they 
shall respectively designate, the right of appointing beneficiaries of 
their respective Scholarships, all which appointments shall, however, 
be always subject to the approval and confirmation of the Trustees. 

Article Seventh. — There shall be a Board of Visitors, who 
shall have and enjoy all the rights and powers by law incident to the 
office of visitors of eleemosynary institutions. The Bishop of the 
Diocese of Massachusetts, or, in case of a division of the present 
Diocese, the Bishop of the Diocese in which the said School shall be 
situated, shall be, ex officio, a member of the said Board, and the 
President thereof. The other members shall be six in number, — 
three ministers of the Protestant Episcopal Church canonically and 
actually resident within the Diocese in which the said School shall be 
situated, and three laymen of the said Church residing within such 
Diocese. The first members of the said Board shall be appointed by 
the Trustees. Whenever any vacancy shall occur by death, resigna- 
tion, incapacity, neglect, or refusal to perform the duties of the office, 
or by removal from the Diocese, or removal from office as hereinafter 
provided, such vacancy shall be filled by an election by the Board of 
Visitors of some person eligible to the office, nominated by the Trus- 
tees. The Trustees and Visitors may, for causes satisfactory to them- 
selves, remove any Visitor from office, provided such removal shall be 
by a joint vote, passed by not less than three-fourths of the whole 
number of Trustees and Visitors, exclusive of the Visitor to be re- 
moved. The Board of Visitors may make such rules for their own 
guidance, and may appoint and hold such meetings, stated and special, 
as they may think proper. They shall appoint one of their number to 
be Secretary, who shall keep a record of their acts and doings, and of 
the acts and doings of the Trustees and Visitors when acting as a joint 
Board. It shall be the duty of the Board of Visitors to inquire into 
and examine the state and condition of the School, and all matters and 
things relating thereto. They shall take care that the Statutes, 



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Articles, Regulations, By-laws, and Rules be at all times faithfully 
observed and obeyed, and that wholesome and proper discipline be 
enforced in the said School, and shall correct and reform ail abuses 
from Whatever cause arising. No pecuniary compensation shall be 
paid from the funds of the Institution to any member of the Board of 
Visitors. 

Article Eighth. — In case the Trustees shall hereafter consider 
that the welfare of the Institution demands, or that its interests and 
those of the Protestant Episcopal Church will be promoted by, the 
removal of the said School from Cambridge to some other place in 
Massachusetts, they shall have the right, with the consent during his 
life of the founder, and with the approval of the Board of Visitors, to 
make such removal. 

Article Ninth. — In case the Trustees shall hereafter deem it 
desirable or expedient to apply to the Legislature of Massachusetts for 
an Act of Incorporation, they shall have the right so to do, and to 
accept such Act if granted, provided that nothing inconsistent with 
or repugnant to the Fundamental Statutes, Articles, and Regulations 
herein set forth shall be contained therein. Upon the grant and 
acceptance of such Act of Incorporation, and the proper organization 
of the said Trustees as a body politic under the same, the acting Trus- 
tees under this Indenture shall make all such conveyances and trans- 
fers, and execute all such deeds and other instruments, as shall be 
necessary or proper to vest the trust funds and the property and estate 
held by them in such Corporation, subject to all the terms, provisions, 
and conditions of this Indenture, and on the strict condition that all 
the Fundamental Statutes, Articles, and Regulations herein set forth 
shall be forever observed and obeyed. 

Article Tenth. — No part of the fund of one hundred thousand 
dollars hereby given shall be expended in the purchase of land, or the 
erection of buildings for the use of the said School ; but the same 
shall be kept constantly invested, and the income thereof shall be 
applied to the payment of the salaries of Professors and Lecturers and 
the necessary expenses of the School; provided, however, that nothing 
herein contained shall be held to forbid or prevent the investment of 
any portion of the said fund in real estate for the purposes of income. 

And the said Edward Sprague Rand, Robert Charles Winthrop, and 
John Phelps Putnam hereby accept the said trust, and covenant, each 
for himself, his executors, and administrators, and not the one for any 
other, with the said Benjamin Tyler Reed, his heirs, executors, and 
administrators, that they will faithfully execute, and to the best of 



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their ability administer the same ; it being, however, especially under- 
stood and agreed that they shall not be liable for any loss or deprecia- 
tion of the trust property, unless caused by their own wilful default or 
negligence, and that neither shall be answerable for the acts, doings, 
or defaults of any other. 

In witness whereof the said parties have hereto set their hands and 
seals the day and year first above written. 

BENJAMIN TYLER REED, [seal.] 

EDWARD S. RAND. [seal.] 

ROBERT C. WLNTHROP. [seal.] 

JOHN PHELPS PUTNAM. [seal.] 

Executed and delivered in presence of 
Edward S. Rand, Jr. 

In accordance with this Instrument of Donation, the Legis- 
lature of Massachusetts, on the 1st of June, 1867, granted the 
School a Charter, or Act of Incorporation, of which the follow- 
ing is a copy : — 

Laws and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1866-67. 

Chap. CCCXXXIII. An Act to incorporate the Trustees of 
the Episcopal Theological School. 

Be it enacted, S?c, as follows: — 

Section 1. Edward S. Rand, Robert C. Winthrop, J. P. Putnam, 
Amos A. Lawrence, James S. Amory, their associates and successors, 
are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Trustees of the 
Episcopal Theological School, with power to establish and main- 
tain in or near the city of Cambridge a seminary or institution, with 
such preparatory schools as they may think fit, for the promotion of 
learning and piety, instruction in Biblical science and literature, and for 
the education of young men for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, with power to confer theological degrees. And the said cor- 
poration shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to 
all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions set forth in the sixty-eighth 
chapter of the general statutes, and all general laws which now are or 
may hereafter be in force, so far as applicable to corporations estab- 
lished for literary or charitable purposes. 

Section 2. The number of the said trustees shall be five ; and in 
case of any vacancy caused by the death, resignation, or removal of 

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any trustee, a new trustee shall be elected by the surviving or re- 
maining trustees ; and any trustee may be removed from office by 
the unanimous vote of all the remaining trustees. Said trustees may 
appoint such officers as they think fit, for the management of the affairs 
of the corporation ; and they shall appoint all professors, lecturers, 
tutors, and instructors in the said school, prescribe their duties and 
fix their salaries and tenure of office. 

Section 3. Said corporation may hold for the purposes aforesaid 
real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding five hundred 
thousand dollars. 

Section 4. This act to take effect upon its passage. 

Approved, June 1, 1867. 

Under this Act the Trustees at once proceeded to organize 
the School, by the election of a Board of Visitors ; the appoint- 
ment of a Faculty ; the adoption of a set of By-Laws for the 
government of the Institution ; and the provision of suitable 
buildings for its use. The result of this organization shows 
the following list of Officers and Faculty : — 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Edward S. Rand, President; Robert C. Winthrop, John P. 
Putnam, Amos A. Lawrence, James S. Amory. 
Secretary of Board of Trustees. — John P. Putnam. 
Treasurer. — Amos A. Lawrence. 

BOARD OF VISITORS. 

The Rt. Rev. Manton Fastburn, D.D., LL D., ex officio, President ; 
The Rev. J. S. C. Greene; The Rev. W. R. Nicholson, D.D.; The 
Rev. E. M. P. Wells, D.D. ; Joseph S. Fay, R. M. Mason, G. C. 
Shattuck. 

FACULTY. 

The Rev. John S. Stone, D.D., Dean. 

I. — Professorship of Homiletics and Pastoral Care, with Liturgies, 
Constitution, and Canon Law annexed. Professor, The Rev. Francis 
Wharton, D.D., LL.D. 

II. — Professorship of Oriental Languages, with Biblical Antiqui- 
ties annexed. Acting Professor, The Rev. P. H. Steenstra. 



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III. — Professorship of Biblical Interpretation, including Criticism 
and Exegesis of the Original Text. Professor, The Rev. P. II. 
Steenstra. 

IV. — Professorship of Systematic Divinity, with Apologetics 
annexed. Professor, The Rev. John S. Stone, D.D. 

V. — Professorship of Ecclesiastical History, with Church. Polity 
annexed. Professor, The Rev.. A. V. G. Allen, 



II. Its Past and Present Condition. 

In the autumn of the year 1867 the School thus organized 
was opened with a small number of students ; though of course 
the full number of classes was not obtained until the opening 
of its fourth year. Since that time, the three classes have 
always been present, and the customary instruction in theo- 
logical learning uninterruptedly given. The following is the 
course of study prescribed : — - 

COURSE OF STUDY. 

First Year. — The studies of this year are mainly Elementary, 
introducing the class to a knowledge of the Hebrew language ; of the 
Origin, Contents, Antiquities, and Canonicity of the books of the Old 
and New Testaments ; of the principles of Sacred Hermeneutics, and 
of the Evidences of Christianity. 

Second Year. — The studies of this year are chiefly Exegetical, 
Doctrinal, and Historical ; applying the principles of Hermeneutics to 
a fuller interpretation of the sense of Scripture, both in the Old Testa- 
ment and in the New; developing their Doctrinal System; and tracing 
the History, sacred and secular, of the Divine Dispensations. 

Third Year. — The studies of this year are mostly Constructive, 
exhibiting the Scriptures — as the Record of Revealed Theology, the 
" Lively Oracles " of God — in their relation to the building up of 
the live Church of God in its Inner Life and its Outward Polity, its 
Ministry and Worship, its Canon Law and Practical Working. 



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SYNOPSIS OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

THE JUNIOR CLASS ATTENDS : 

I. The Professor of Hebrew. — Study of Hebrew language 
begun, and continued through the three sessions of the term. 
[Text-books : Van der Hooght's Biblia Hebraica, Conant's Gesenius' 
Grammar, Robinson's Gesenius' Lexicon.] Introduction to Old Tes- 
tament begun. Principles of Hermeneutics. 

II. The Professor of Biblical Interpretation. — Critical 
Readings in the Greek of the New Testament, — the Gospels and the 
Acts of the Apostles. Lectures on the Peculiarities of the New 
Testament Greek. 

III. The Professor of Ecclesiastical History. — First Ses- 
sion. — History of Jewish Church begun. Second Session. — History 
of Jewish Church completed ; History of Apostolic Church begun. 
Third Session. — History of Apostolic Church completed. [Text- 
books and books of reference : Kurtz's Sacred History, Milman's 
History of Jews, Schaff's History of the Apostolic Church, Neander's 
Planting and Training of the Christian Church.] 

IV. The Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Care. — 
Evidences of Christianity begun, and continued through the whole 
term. [Text-books and books of reference: Paley, Butler, Mcll- 
vaine, &c] 

THE MIDDLE CLASS ATTENDS : 

I. The Professor of Biblical Interpretation. — Hebrew 

Studies continued. Introduction to Old Testament continued, giving 
account of origin of the several books, their collection into the Sacred 
Canon, and History of the Text. Lectures on the Characteristics of 
Hebrew Poetry. Exegesis of select portions of Psalms and Prophets, 
with particular reference to Messianic Prophecy. [Text-books and 
books of reference as usual.] Through the whole term, Greek of New 
Testament continued, with Lectures. Introduction to New Testament 
on the same plan with that to the Old Testament. Exegesis of Epistle 
to Romans, and of some minor Epistles. Lectures on Principles of 
Textual Criticism, and Sacred Hermeneutics. [Text-books : Tisch- 
endorf's Greek New Testament, Robinson's Harmony of New Testa- 



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ment, Winer's New Testament Grammar, Robinson's New Testament 
Lexicon, Westcott's Introduction to Gospels, Ellicott's Life of Christ.] 
Through the whole term. 

II. The Professor of Systematic Divinity. — The Exposition 
of the Creed begun, and continued through the term. 

III. The Professor of Ecclesiastical History. — First 
Session. — History to year 323. Eecitations, Lectures, and Essays. 
History of Doctrine commenced. Second Session. — History con- 
tinued to the great Schism between Eastern and Western Churches. 
Eecitations, Lectures, and History of ' Doctrine continued. Third 
Session. — Lectures on History of the Middle Ages, with reference to 
authors, and Essays by students. 

IV. The Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Care. — 
First Session. — Liturgies. [Text-books : TVheatley, Blunt, Mant, 
Blakeney.] Second Session. — Apologetics, with reference to Modern 
Scepticism. Lectures. Third Session. — Apologetics continued. 
[Text-books : Aid to Faith, Birk's Bible and Modern Thought, 
Barnes's Apologetics.] 

the senior class attends : 

I. The Professor of Biblical Interpretation. — On the Old 
Testament : the general course of second year continued and com- 
pleted. On the New Testament ; the general course of second year 
continued and completed. 

II. The Professor of Systematic Divinity. — Exposition of 
Creed continued and completed. Exposition of Thirty-nine Articles 
begun. 

III. The Professor of Ecclesiastical History. — First Ses- 
sion. — History of Reformation Period, XIV. and XV. Centuries. 
Lectures by Professor and Essays by students. History of English 
Church begun. History of Doctrine continued. Second Session. — 
History of English Church completed. History of Doctrine completed. 
Third Session. — Lectures by Professor and Essays by students. 
History of American Episcopal Church. Lectures on Course of 
Modern Thought. 

IV. The Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Care. — 

First Session. — Church Polity. [Text-books : Hooker, Litton on the 



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Church, and Episcopacy tested by Scripture.] Second Session. — 
Church Polity and Homiletics. [Text-books : Bridges on Christian 
Ministry, Burgon on Pastoral Office, Shedd's Homiletics.] Third 
Session. — Pastoral Care. [Same text-books, with Baxter's Reformed 
Pastor.] 

While the Institution has thus been receiving its organiza- 
tion, and entering on its course of study, the benevolent work 
of providing for the School permanent buildings, of purchasing 
the grounds on which those buildings are to stand, of supplying 
it with a needed and growing library, and of meeting its annual 
expenses, has made steady progress. 

Buildings. 

1. In 1867, donations towards purchasing a residence for 
the Rev. Dr. Stone were received from — 

John A. Burnham $5,000.00 

James S. Amory 2,500.00 

Amos A. Lawrence 1,500.00 

The Rev. J. S. C. Greene 1,500.00 

Henry Upham 1,040.00 

Subsequently added by the Trustees 3,000.00 

Subsequently added by Dr. Stone 2,500.00 

$17,040.00 

2. In the year 1869, Mr. Robert M. Mason completed and 
presented to the Trustees the beautiful edifice of St. John's 
Memorial Chapel, as a free church for the permanent use of 
the students of the School, and of the congregation which 
might be gathered there as worshippers. This building, with 
its fine organ and other furniture, cost its generous donor 
175,000. 

3. In 1872, Mr. Amos A. Lawrence began, and has now 
completed, a substantial and commodious dormitory for the 
students, in style and material corresponding with those of the 
Chapel, and at an expense of thirty-five thousand dollars. 
This is but half of the building as it will be ; and, when the 



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remaining half shall have been added, the whole, independently 
of its furniture, and of the land bought by Mr. Lawrence, will 
have cost $70,000. 

4. During the present year, donations towards the purchase 
of an estate lying between the residence of Dr. Stone and St. 
John's Chapel have been received from — 

John A. Burnham $10,000.00 

Robert M. Mason 1,000.00 



,000.00 



The cost of this estate was twenty-five thousand dollars. The 
remaining fourteen thousand will be met, partly by the sale 
of buildings previously occupied by the School, and partly by 
other benevolent offerings as they may be received. 

5. Towards a permanent building for the library, the mu- 
nificent founder of the School has recently made a donation 
of twenty-five thousand dollars ; and, to complete the work in 
the style of the other buildings, ten thousand more will be 
needed, making the cost of the whole $35,000. 

6. To complete the fine quadrangle of buildings, all in stone, 
according to the designs of the architects, Messrs. Ware and 
Van Brunt, one further addition is needed, — a Hall to contain 
Refectory, Kitchen, and rooms for domestic establishment, to 
cost, in all, about $20,000. 

For this, however, the Trustees earnestly wait the prompt- 
ing of some other generous heart among the friends of the 
Institution. The need for this building is even more urgent 
than that for the library. 



Land. 

That part of the grounds on which the Memorial Chapel 
stands was the early gift, through the Rev. Dr. Wharton, of 
the following donors : — 



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Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia $5,000.00 

William G. Moorehead, of Philadelphia 2,000.00 

Thomas H. Powers, of Philadelphia 500.00 

J. Fisher Sheafe, of New York 2,000.00 

A. Whitney, of New York . ' 1,000.00 

Stewart Brown 1,000.00 

William H. Aspinwall 500.00 

$12,000.00 

The larger portion of the grounds on which stand, or are 
to stand the Dormitory, the Library (Reed Hall), and the 
Refectory, has been partly the gift of Mr. Samuel Batchelder, 
subject to a temporary annuity, and cost $10,400 ; and partly 
the purchase by Mr. Amos A. Lawrence, for $15,000 : total, 
$25,400. 



Library. 

This consists, or is to consist, — 

1. Of purchases made by the Trustees, from time to time, 
and already in use, 312 vols. 

2. Of the theological part of the late Bishop Eastburn's 
library, now on our shelves, 501 vols. 

3. Of works to be hereafter purchased by income from the 
fund which has been realized from insurance on the Copley 
Greene library, amounting to $10,500. This collection, be- 
queathed by the late Rev. J. S. C. Greene, and containing 
3,150 vols, from his larger collection, was burnt in the great 
Boston fire of 1872. The fund realized from insurance has 
been permanently invested, and will secure to the School a 
large, valuable, and ever-growing collection, meeting amply 
the wants of the largest and most ripened scholarship, and of 
the best practical and devotional culture. 

It thus appears that the Trustees now hold for the Institu- 
tion the following items of property, at their several rates of 
cost, viz. : — 



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Of Productive Funds. 

1. The Reed Endowment $100,000.00 

2. The Greene Library Fund . . 10,500.00 

Of Unproductive Property. 

1. Land for Buildings 37,400.00 

2. Buildings : — 

Dr. Stone's residence 17,040.00 

Memorial Chapel 75,000.00 

Dormitory 35,000.00 

Library, paid 25,000.00 

Estimated value of buildings to be sold, over incumbrances, 

say 6,000.00 

Paid towards the estate lately purchased 11,000.00 

$316,940.00 

If, to this, we add the value of books already in the library, 

say 1,000.00 

A residuary legacy, bequeathed by Bishop Eastburn, say . 20,000.00 

The sum needed to build the remainder of Dormitory . . . 35,000.00 

The sum needed to finish the Library 10,000.00 

The probable cost of the Refectory 20,000.00 

And the amount necessary to complete the endowment of 

professors' salaries, and for a general fund 157,060.00 

$243,060.00 

It will be seen that the Trustees now hold for the Institution 

property which has cost . $317,000.00 

And that, when the whole endowment shall have been filled, 
and the whole quadrangle of buildings completed, they 

will hold in trust an estate which may well be valued at $560,000.00 



General Expenses, &c. 

The annual expenses incurred by the support of the School 
consist in payments of taxes, insurance on buildings, interest 
on mortgage, &c, and for fuel and light to students. Hitherto 
these expenses have been met by the following subscriptions, 
which must, however, in a short time cease, viz. : — 

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The Rev. J. S. C. Greene $4,500.00 

R. M. Mason 3,400.00 

The Rev. F. Wharton, D.D 2,000.00 

Mrs. Sarah K. Safford 1,000.00 

Foster Waterman 1,000.00 

Foster Waterman, legacy 500.00 

Miss Betsey Varney 500.00 

Martin L. Bradford 1,000.00 

George A. Brown & Co 500.00 

Martin Brimmer . 1,190.00 

Church of our Saviour, Longwood 250.00 

Amos A. Lawrence . 4,000.00 

Jonathan French 200.00 

Nathan Matthews 300.00 

St. Paul's Church, Brookline 235.38 

Henry S.Chase 50.00 

St. Paul's Church, Boston 50.00 

Church of the Advent, Boston 45.32 

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Winthrop 800.00 

Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer 900.00 

James S. Amory 400.00 

Henry Upham 1,500.00 

E. S. Rand 400.00 

E. S. Rand, Jr 75.00 

J. P. Putnam 300.00 

Jos. S. Fay 400.00 

Ellen F. Mason 100.00 

William R. Lawrence 400.00 

J, G. Cushing 200.00 

R. M. Cushing 150.00 

T. F. Cushing 100.00 

Mrs. Gorham Brooks 200.00 

Otis Daniel . 100.00 

$26,745.70 

This amount shows that, on an average, the annual expenses 
of the School, exclusive of payments for salaries to professors, 
have been nearly $4,500 ; a large sum indeed to be raised 
by voluntary subscription, but made large by the want of a 
general fund to meet the necessity. By far the greater part of 
these expenses, however, will cease, when the buildings of the 
Institution are all finished, and the endowments all rilled : a 
result which the past liberality of friends — sensible smiles 



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of a favoring Providence — encourages the Trustees humbly 
to anticipate. 

Such, then, have been the origin and the past condition of 
this School of Sacred Learning, and such is its present state. 
From what has been said, and from the accompanying docu- 
ments, it is manifest that the Institution is based on no narrow 
or party views in the Church. The course of study pursued 
is neither narrower nor less catholic than that prescribed by 
the House of Bishops in the year 1804 ; and the instructions 
under that course, the Trustees feel authorized to declare, 
have, in all good fidelity, been in harmony with the ecclesias- 
tical principles and doctrinal truths which underlie the Church, 
as it has come down to us from the times and the trials of 
the great Protestant Reformation, bringing with it its Historic 
Episcopacy and its Evangelical Theology. The only doctrinal 
test imposed on its professors is a declaration that they hold 
and will uniformly teach the Scriptural Truth of our Justifi- 
cation by Faith only, as set forth in the Thirty-nine Articles 
of the Church. 

The general prosperity of the School has certainly been 
gratifying. At a glance, however, it is manifest that, unex- 
pectedly great and rapid as has been the growth of its endow- 
ment, one thing is still imperatively needed, in order to the 
full and true working of the Institution ; viz., the speedy 
filling up of that endowment to the measure required by all 
the exigencies of the case. Its Faculty are living on small 
and wholly inadequate salaries ; and the general annual ex- 
penses of the School make an unreasonable, and what ought 
to be considered an unnecessary demand on the constant 
liberality of its supporters. 

Under these circumstances, it would naturally be supposed 
that the recent offer of such a large addition to its endowment 
as the sum of $100,000 ought to have been promptly and thank- 
fully accepted. And so it would have been, had the offer come 



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accompanied by no embarrassing conditions. In determining 
to refuse that offer, the Trustees feel that they were not at 
liberty, even had they been inclined, to consult personal feeling, 
looking at the exigencies of the future ; nor to either violate or 
renounce a Trust, once voluntarily accepted, and still cheer- 
fully held by them from the past. They think it their duty 
with good fidelity to administer, and not through any policy 
to change, that Trust. 

Instead, however, of attempting any further justification of 
their decision, they think it best to close the case by simply 
appending to the foregoing statement the correspondence, 
which has passed between the parties. That correspondence 
is as follows : — 

Ash Wednesday, 1873. 

Gentlemen, — I am desirous, as you are aware, of doing something 
to advance the interests of our Church and the community by promot- 
ing the interests of sound theological learning and thorough pastoral 
preparation, and, if practical, through the Divinity School of our 
Church at Cambridge, which is under your care. It seems to me that 
it is necessary to the success and efficiency of any such school that it 
should fairly and adequately represent the Church as a whole, and not 
be the organ or instrument of any party or section, and that its teach- 
ings should conform to the standards of the Church as they are gen- 
erally accepted and understood by the great body of our clergy and 
people. 

To this end its Trustees and Faculty should be composed of gentle- 
men who, while otherwise qualified, can fully represent the great body 
of Churchmen. Should you agree with me in these views, and are 
willing to act upon them, I should be ready to give to it the sum of 
one hundred thousand dollars, payable in instalments. 

If you think favorably of my proposal, I shall be glad to meet the 
Trustees to agree upon the details of the arrangements, the time of pay- 
ment, &c. I suppose you want funds for the three objects, — build- 
ings, professorships, and free scholarships. If my offer is accepted, we 
can no doubt agree as to the best use you can make of the money. I 
have felt a deep interest in your Theological School, particularly so 
since I erected Matthews Hall. As the income from the hall set apart 
for scholarships for students who intend to enter the ministry of our 



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Church will be sufficient for twenty students, no one can calculate 
the good influences it will have over the twelve hundred students at 
Harvard. 

It is my earnest wish that this institution shall be the leading 
Divinity School of our Church, and Cambridge has greater advan- 
tages than any other location for such a school. 

Yours truly, 

To (Signed) Nathan Matthews. 

E. S. Rand, Esq., 



Hon. R. C. Winthrop, 
Hon. J. P. Putnam, 
Amos A. Lawrence, Esq. 
James S. Amort, Esq., 



Trustees of the Episcopal Theological School 
of Massachusetts. 



Boston, March 3, 1873. 
To the Trustees of the Episcopal Theological School : — 

Gentlemen, — In compliance with your request, I will state more 
fully than I did in my recent letter to the Trustees of the Divinity 
School the changes that I would like to have made. 

Having carefully examined the Indenture made between the Trustees 
and Mr. Reed, I am quite satisfied with it, and do not ask for any 
alteration. What I do wish and propose is that the Board of Trustees 
should be so constituted as to fairly represent the Church. Inasmuch as 
there are different parties, and as the High Churchmen outnumber the 
others, I would suggest, as an equitable and satisfactory arrangement, 
that the Board consist of two Low Churchmen and three High Church- 
men, two of whom should be conservative. No one, of course, would be 
selected who would not work in harmony with the Board. If such a 
Board is selected, I hope the terms High and Low Church may be 
forgotten in the future management. You may think that there is no 
necessity for such a change ; but it seems to me to be an indispensable 
one, if the Theological School is to take the position of a fair and un- 
biassed exponent of the truth as taught in our formularies. You are 
doubtless aware that there is a belief on the part of the High Church- 
men that the Institution, as now represented, is under the management 
of the Low Church party, and hence the former will not contribute 
toward its support. If the proposed change is effected, the School would 
not be under the control of either party. In no other respect, I think, 
is there any difference between my views and those of the gentlemen, 



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now intrusted with the interests of Mr. Reed's very noble foundation 
so far as my own gift is concerned. Should it be accepted, I propose 
to found one professorship and several scholarships ; but it will be 
better to consider the disposition of the gift when its acceptance has 
been determined upon. 

Yours truly, 

(Signed) Nathan Matthews. 

Boston, 31st March, 1873. 

Dear Sir, — Your communication, dated " Ash Wednesday," and 
your explanatory letter of the 3d inst., have been the subject of care- 
ful consideration by the Trustees of the Episcopal Theological School 
at Cambridge, to whom they were addressed. 

We have deferred any formal acknowledgment of them, and any 
final decision in regard to the proposals contained in them, until now, 
in the earnest hope that we might see our way clear to accept your 
generous offer. 

You are right in thinking that the Institution under our charge is 
greatly in need of additional funds. We are in want, as you have sug- 
gested, of increased endowments for professorships, for buildings, and 
for free scholarships ; and it is with the deepest regret that we have 
found ourselves unable to accept at once the munificent provision which 
you have offered to contribute to these objects. 

But you can hardly be surprised that there should be much hesita- 
tion, on our part, in acceding to the precise conditions with which your 
proposal is accompanied ; and in justice to ourselves, as well as to the 
Institution of which we are the Trustees, we are bound to state dis- 
tinctly the grounds on which that proposal, in its present shape, must 
be respectfully declined. 

We are happy to agree with you that it is necessary to the success 
and efficiency of any such school that " it should fairly and adequately 
represent the Church as a whole, and not be the organ or instrument of 
any party or section ; and that its teachings should conform to the stand- 
ards of the Church as they are generally accepted and understood by 
the great body of our clergy and people." You must pardon us, how- 
ever, if we are unwilling to admit that there has been any thing in the 
management of the School at Cambridge, thus far, which is inconsistent 
with this acknowledged principle. We should certainly be unjust to 
the able and accomplished professors who are in charge of the Institu- 



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tion, were we ready to acquiesce in the idea that their teachings had not 
'•conformed to the standards of the Church as they are generally 
accepted and understood by the great body of our clergy and people." 
The Institution is still in its infancy, and some parts of its organization 
may not yet have fulfilled all the purposes for which they were designed. 
But the Board of Visitors, of which our late lamented Bishop was at 
the head, and of which the Bishop of the Diocese in all time to come 
is to be the President ex officio, would seem to be the appropriate 
authority to pronounce judgment on so serious a suggestion. The 
Trustees could not fail to give the most respectful attention to an inti- 
mation of this sort from such a source ; and when the Board of Visitors 
shall be fully organized, with a new Bishop as their presiding officer 
we shall eagerly await the results of their inquiries. 

But the conditions of your proposal, we are aware, relate primarily 
to the composition of the Board of Trustees. After expressing your 
full satisfaction with the Indenture between the Trustees and Mr. Reed, 
— the munificent founder of the School, from whom the three first 
of the undersigned received their appointment, — you have expressed 
your desire " that the Board of Trustees should be so constituted as to 
fairly represent the Church." With this view you proceed as follows : 
" Inasmuch as there are different parties, and as the High Churchmen 
outnumber the others, I would suggest, as an equitable and satisfactory 
arrangement, that the Board consist of two Low Churchmen and three 
High Churchmen, two of whom should be conservative. No one, of 
course, would be selected who would not work in harmony with the 
Board. If such a Board is elected, I hope the terms High and Low 
Church may be forgotten in the future management." 

The conditions of your offer would thus seem to be, that a majority 
of the present Board should vacate their places, as coming within your 
understanding of Low Churchmen ; and that three Churchmen, who 
should have approved themselves as High, and two of whom should be 
conservative as well as High, should be elected to the vacancies. And 
from such an arrangement you hope there may be harmony in the 
Board, and that the terms High and Low Churchmen may hereafter be 
forgotten. 

For ourselves, we prefer to forget these terms now. They are purely 
arbitrary terms, which have obtained an unhappy familiarity and cur- 
rency of late years. They are nowhere found in the standards or 
formularies of the Church to which you have referred. They are 
applied very much at random to one or another, sometimes in ignorance 
and sometimes from prejudice, and are calculated rather to furnish 



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weapons to the enemies of our Church, than to encourage or strengthen 
its friends. They are the last terms we desire to recognize in the 
organization or management of the Institution. The differences which 
they are employed to indicate vary with the varying hour. We should 
hardly know how to define them in their simplest form ; but when you 
add " conservative " to " high," and require two of the three High 
Churchmen to be conservative also, we should be entirely at a loss to 
find an arbiter for deciding upon such qualifications. We are certainly 
unwilling to be responsible for the formal introduction of such discrim- 
inations among Churchmen into the management of an Institution 
designed for the education to the Ministry of young men, who may more 
fitly be left to choose their relation to parties in our Church, if parties 
there are, and are to be, when they have completed their term, and are 
prepared to enter on their work. 

But it cannot be supposed that the changes you have suggested are 
to end with the reconstruction of the Board of Trustees. Your remarks 
that " the teachings of the school should conform to the standards of the 
Church," and that the school should be " a fair and unbiassed exponent 
of the truth as taught in our formularies," can have reference only to 
the professors. You would thus seem to contemplate the substitution 
of other professors in place of those who now occupy the chairs of the 
Seminary. We should be unjust to the faithful men who, with very 
insufficient remuneration, have conducted the Institution through the 
difficulties and discouragements of its infancy, if we were to subject 
them to the risk of being displaced by a new Board of Trustees. It 
would hardly be an alleviation of our compunctions at having assented 
to a course which might involve such consequences, to know that we 
had done so under the temptation of a large increase of our resources. 
If any changes are to be made in the organization or management of 
the Institution, we venture to think that they should be made upon their 
own merits, and not in consideration of an endowment, however liberal, 
or however needful. 

Such changes may be found desirable and even indispensable in the 
future. Vacancies may occur in the Board of Trustees by death or 
resignation. The number of the Board may be increased. New pro- 
fessors may be called for, on new foundations or on those already exist- 
ing. The Institution is quite too young to have obtained its permanent 
form and character. We thank you for your generous proposal to aid 
it, and cordially unite with you in the wish that it may still become one 
of the leading Divinity Schools of our Church. We had hoped that 
your bounty might have contributed to such a result. And it is with 



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sincere regret that we find ourselves constrained to decline the condi- 
tions with which your offer is accompanied. 

We remain, dear sir, respectfully and truly, yours, 

Edward S. Kand. 

KOBERT C. WlNTHROP. 

John P. Putnam. 

Amos A. Lawrence. 

James S. Amort. 
Nathan Matthews, Esq. 






And now, if the statements thus made have put our Church 
public in possession of some needed information ; if the large 
amount towards the endowment of this School of Sacred Learn- 
ing, already received from the unsolicited bounty of its patrons, 
should seem to that public, as it seems to themselves, a token 
of God's favor towards the Institution ; if the reasons assigned 
for not accepting an addition to its endowment, even though 
so considerable and so needed, should be as satisfying to the 
good sense and judgment of others as it is to their own reason 
and consciences ; and if, as the result, that endowment shall 
be found still growing, though but slowly, yet freely and cheer- 
fully, towards the full amount required, — the whole will richly 
compensate the Trustees for their not always grateful labors, 
and tend to sweeten the consciousness which they feel of 
having done right , both in the first acceptance, and in the sub- 
sequent administration of their Sacred Trust. 

Boston, June 18, 1873. 




A STATEMENT 



THE TRUSTEES 



OF THE 



EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, 

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



TO WHICH IS APPENDED 



THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THEM AND 
MR. NATHAN MATTHEWS, OF BOSTON. 



CAMBRIDGE : 

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. 
1873. 









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